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New Jersey health officials have confirmed two human cases of West Nile virus in the state. However, it has been classified as a low risk of the virus by the state Department of Environmental Protection.

A Palestinian detainee in the ninth week of his hunger strike fell unconscious at an Israeli hospital on Friday in a case that could test Israel’s new force-feeding law.

The N.I.H. authors sought to test a more recent conclusion by Mr. Taubes that “any diet that succeeds does so because the dieter restricts fattening carbohydrates”. The focus turned back on the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which recommended limiting the tippy top...

Flights are being delayed in the Washington region due to technical issues at a Federal Aviation Administration center in Washington. “Flights in and out of the three major D.C.-area airports may be delayed”.

“The FAA is diagnosing an automation problem at an air traffic center in Leesburg, VA”, the agency said in a statement.

This past week Tech Spot highlighted the findings of a team of researchers from Plymouth University’s Cognition Institute who discovered that even just 3 minutes of playing Tetris can be an effective way of resisting cravings. The weeklong study monitored participants for...

Jay Z, Timbaland and other representatives of various music agencies will finally come to court to comment on one of the longest-running lawsuits in the United States, questioning the use of a sample in the single “Big Pimpin'”. The record includes a sample of a...

VSV-ZEBOV was originally developed by Canada’s public health agency before being licensed to NewLink Genetics, which then signed a deal handing Merck the responsibility to research, develop, manufacture and distribute it.

It assured the public that the medicines manufactured in the plant, which include inhaled asthma drug Advair, have not been infected with the bacteria, as the cooling tower was a self-standing structure that had no contact with the drugs, Reuters reports.

American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, according to accounts provided to U.S. intelligence officials. Intelligence agencies corroborated her account and American officials passed it on to...

Powdered alcohol – or Palcohol, as the Arizona-based Lipsmark calls it – won’t be legal in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill banning it Friday.

August 14 New York on Friday became the most populous U.S. state to ban the sale of powdered alcohol, a controversial just-add-water beverage that opponents say will lead to a rise in underage drinking and abuses.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of painkiller OxyContin for kids between the ages of 11 and 16 who are suffering from severe pain, USA Today reports.

New York made the move to ban powdered alcohol, or “palcohol”, throughout the state.

“They’ve shown that that’s bogus”, she says.